They took just 57 days to plan and organise a flight to Capetown and back from their base at Goodwood, flying a specially prepared Comko C42 microlight.
The route took them through Czech Republic and Crete, across the Mediterranean to Egypt and on through Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Namibia and so to South Africa. They flew a total of 14,846 nautical miles in 39 flying days, with no alarms or excursions aside from one landing just after dusk. The expedition was described as a peerless example of the capabilities of modern microlights.